Auteur: Antonello Pierpaolo Antonello

This book challenges widespread and largely negative assumptions about Italian postmodernism and postmodernism in general. It considers contemporary Italian culture as a particularly interesting …

<DIV>Are religions intrinsically violent (as is strenuously argued by the ‘new atheists’)? Or, as Girard argues, have they been functionally rational instruments developed to manage …

<DIV>Fifty years after its publication in English, René Girard’s <I>Deceit, Desire, and the Novel </I>(1965) has never ceased to fascinate, challenge, inspire, and …

<DIV>From his groundbreaking <I>Violence and the Sacred </I>and <I>Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World</I>, René Girard’s mimetic theory is …

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